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Sep 2013

2013-09-02

Initial Rating: 8.0 (August 2013)

This comment is for Cthulhu (I still have not played with Daoloth). I´m a little disappointed because I thought this ancient was going to be totally different from the one in the base game (it is very similar, I felt it is more of a revision). Still it has some add on abilities that make it a little bit harder to beat and I´m glad to have it in my collection.

Cthulhu never needed a revision, but his updated card is perfectly fine. It has more menacing artwork, anyway.

Daoloth is a mixed bag. His slumber ability can be annoying... literally to shuffle out and redraw EVERY gate on a monster surge is a nightmare, considering that the gate pile is ordinarily never shuffled. But I have to lend credit to the designers in giving Daoloth a final battle attack that gets less risky if you have more seals down when he awakens (however marginal). This brings me to my next point: Daoloth does not have official Sinister Plot cards. I designed some, but I shouldn't have needed to.